The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 1
A long time ago there lived in a camp of Pawnees a certain poor boy.
What happens: live · To what, where: camp
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 time | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 camp | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 camp | det |
| 9 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Pawnees | case |
| 11 | Pawnees | Pawnee | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 camp | nmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 13 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 boy | amod |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 boy | amod |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a camp of Pawnees; there | time | a certain poor boy advcl | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in camp=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Project Gutenberg book 66596 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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